Guild Wars 2

no envy here and my comment was 100% serious.

if all your equipment needs are met, what are you getting out of any other drop anyway? it feels like your asking for a solution without having an actual problem.

SandraSolace.7682:

It counts days actually played, so not days that go by without logging in.

I do not think that’s correct, hours are tied to play time but the days are calendar days since account creation.

it’s only useful for lowbies before they acquire a real elite.

I don’t think I’ve seen it in-game a single time in the last year.

Vavume.8065:

I have full ascended gear, weps and armor… and now these shards are useless to me…

In that case, isn’t pretty much every single drop useless to you?

might as well just trash everything you pick up, you’re done.

how about if neutral aquatic mobs started dropping ‘slab of white meat’?

that would cover the theme without having to tack on some awful fishing mini-game.

OP, have you checked out the “mini dungeons”?

there’s already several of them and they are open world, dungeon-like content.

Nabuko Darayon.9645:

You might’ve not understood me. I did not say that you could blast only your own field, but if there is a bunch of fields in front of a boss that if you place your own field and you use the blast that it should prioritize your field over the rest.

For example, If I’m an Ele and I use Lava Font and then a Guardian uses his Symbol and what I want is to support my team with Might, I should be able to do so, instead of giving Area Retal which is already applied with the Symbol so basically I wasted my Blast on a boon that’s not needed for my team. And since Symbols help Guardians do damage I can’t say stop using your symbols.
That’s why I think this should be implemented… It would actually add more teamplay.

Properly layering and timing combos is meant to be part of tactical team play. Being patient with skill use and co-coordinating with teammates to maximize which finishers are going off which fields matters.

What you’re suggesting is freedom for everyone to solo next to each other, not more team play.

lordkrall.7241:

They should however consider removing the achievements for destroying and/or repairing them.

Most that care about achievements are probably done doing them anyway.

Nabuko Darayon.9645:

Our Blasts should be able to prioritize our own Combo Field, right?

No, the whole point of having the combo system in the game is for team synergy.

we don’t need to merge servers, we need to split up the bigger ones.

Templates are fine as long as you can only change which one is active in certain designated areas(cities, heart of the mists, wvw spawn area).

on the fly build switch is a big NO-NO

Amins.3710:

Guardians and Mesmer’s have incredible access to 25% Passive Run speed….

We just have to pay 60 gold to get it.. /cough Travellers.

or 15g for Runes of Speed

agreed on DH/NSP for great roaming, FC… well, they have some roaming etiquette issues

any of them, only thing that matters is character level.

woooooooooooooooosh

Romek.4201:

not my cup of tea

for real pvp i play spvp – wvw/eotm is to farm and casual fun

nothing more

for real pvp I play wvw/eotm

sPvP is just for casual fun, so I should get a buff to only take half damage there, right?

They should totally add a race change options in the gem shop.

it just has to reset a few things to defaults: cancel your storyline progress, reset your level to 1, replace your gear with the starting set and place you back into your new race’s tutorial mission.

because every time they try to implement something as a long term goal, they get flooded with complaints about grinding, timegates and casual vs hardcore.

All classes have at least one option for a 25% passive speed buff, most have 2, some have 3.

Vuh.1328:

Conditions are affected by Dodge, blind, block, invulnerability, condition immunties, evade the same way power damage is.

the skills that apply the conditions might be subject to those things, but the conditions themselves are not.

call target on your primary target before getting in combat, that way you can easily toggle back to it.

beyond that… multiple targets would be a pain to manage.

good to know, thanks for the tip

My guestimate is 700k-800k users that play at least one hour per week.

current peak concurrency is probably around 40-50k

Ghlitch.8932:

So give us some ambient creatures in the spawn area so we don’t go in to battle handicapped.

I’ve been asking for this in sPvP since release.

insanemaniac.2456:

yay thieves cant get a free escape w/ cnd
yay eles dont have extra targets to help them run away w/ rtl
yay guardians cant use gap closer blinks as escapes
yay autotargeting doesnt select targets i dont want when someone spams stealth

none of which applies to ambient creatures in spawn.

Xuro.5861:

Why is this so expensive?

Population stability.

if the cost was too low, guilds would go back to changing servers every 2-3 weeks and wreaking havoc with the tiers and server health.

Dworkin.1734:

I think that practice when only commanders buying mostly all siege stuff is not very fair.

that’s not a real practice.

Siege gets dropped by just about anyone.. commanders aren’t required or expected to provide any siege blueprints, let alone all of them.

Where/how do you find the portals “in the wild”?

agreed, rate of fire is way too fast, especially considering how big the radius is.

Umut.5471:

They have to add this and other new pvp features/pvp zones to the game, or majority of players will move to other new mmos.

Ppl have been saying this for 18+ months and the sky still hasn’t fallen.

Ayrilana.1396:

Please provide a link to a source that is current which states color assignment is random.

I can’t vouch for it being purely random… but a quick look at matchups will clearly show that colors are not directly tied to relative rank anymore. In some tiers Blue is the top ranked server, in others it’s Green.

Siobhan.3582:

Why would you not improve the current ones instead of this?

They did improve them, the overwhelming response was “meh, this is nice and all but what everyone really wants is new maps”

Grav.3568:

Which effectively removes the only reason people had left to transfer down.

the reason to transfer down is for better roaming.

within one hour of them turning on names in WvW, the forums will have over a hundred name&shame threads about cheating, griefing, trolling and “look how easily I killed player X” videos.

no thank you.

Jinx.7258:

Do we even need to comment furthermore? You need to roll your face on the keyboard to win …

PS: Just noticed your sigils… 3 on crit /facepalm

that certainly was constructive.

Kibazuka.1390:

Winters weapons(Altough as unserious as you can get.. no wonder noone uses these)
Coldsnap…

Whoa what? Coldsnap is one of the nicest scepter skins in the game.

Chris.3290:

I say it gives people who are ranked low, a chance to fight groups ranked higher

I hadn’t even considered that, there’s gonna be a lot of QQ from T1 players getting rolled by all the “lower rank” players =)

I was confused by your post because the opening sentence establishes secondary professions as the context.

As for your actual question: it has nothing to do with “difficulty to code”, it’s a design decision. Anet wants characters and their builds to be more tightly bound, to give them a sense of permanence, a sense of story.

As opposed to characters just being a place holder for swappable class/build templates

I am hoping it’s a nice alternative for solo roaming when the BL zergs get too big

wow, I had never tested it but also assumed it was 5 pulses of 1s Stability, good to know.

it’s a condition whose effect is a control effect.

DarkFrost.2847:

Two, it gets rid of the queue for the higher ranked (stacked) servers so there is no longer any incentive to leave said server. \

If they haven’t already left by now.. eotm won’t be the reason they stay where they are.

aspirine.6852:

Isnt that the birthday present? As useless as it is, still a reward for hours.

not really, it’s calendar based. you could have 5 minutes of time on one character and still get a bday present.

The devs have stated as clearly as possible that secondary professions will never be part of this game.

It simply makes it too hard to balance classes/skills.

What he means is that your character’s appearance and size are visual only, every single character takes up the same amount of space in game.

ie: everyone uses the same hitbox, your model’s race/size has no impact on it.

Why wouldn’t you just use the official launcher?

If you’re thinking about running a launcher whose origin you’re not sure of, I’d be WAY more worried about it stealing your credentials/account then whether or not it’s “legal”.

Thedenofsin.7340:

are you going to recognize the “Apex Predator” problem you have created?

Could you elaborate on what this “Apex Predator” problem is?

Toroquin.3605:

You can after all customize the X-axis position

This is the first I hear of it.. how do you do that?

I haven’t really had any problems with stealth in WvW since the changes to culling fixed perma-stealth.

it’s just a different challenge to figure out how to handle it. It may be more punishing to certain builds, but then if your build is well done you’ll be offering other players the same kind of challenge.

how about Golem Mastery: adds skills only usable against other golems

mech fights!

are you.. replying to something?

what’s the context of your post?